Males were generally more proficient than females, which is a tendency that was also found in previous research [cf. Huang and Fon (2007)] and more or less reflects the status quo of young Min speakers nowadays.
Since Min females are generally less proficient than Min males in Taiwan (Huang and Fon 2007), it is tempting to overlay the effects of gender and proficiency and align males with high-level talkers and females with mid-level talkers.
Moreover, children with CI are generally less proficient than NH children in recognizing facial expressions [ 32, 33] and are also less able to detect differences in intonation in spoken language [ 34].
Almost all MSI-H tumours are characterised by alterations in one of the four major proteins of the mismatch repair (MMR) system (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2) that renders them MMR deficient, whereas MSI-L and MSS tumours are generally MMR proficient.
(Chinen) RALPH BOWEN QUINTET (Thursday) Ralph Bowen, a proficient and generally underrated tenor saxophonist working in the modern jazz mainstream, leads a top-shelf group with John Swana on trumpet, Vic Juris on guitar, Sam Yahel on organ and Dana Hall on drums.
In other words, although proficient talkers are generally more cautious in adopting new variants, as one had originally predicted, their unwelcoming attitude could be attenuated by positive social connotation of the variant, and the effect is much stronger on females than on males.
However, cancers from HNPCC patients are generally chromosomally normal, while MMR proficient tumours are generally aneuploid and highly chromosomally unstable [ 27].
This would be especially interesting for the case of Taiwan Min because speaker gender generally covaries with language proficiency and females tend to be less proficient in Min than males (Huang and Fon 2007).
After three sessions students are generally "fairly consistent, but not necessarily proficient," he said.
